A good starting point for such a discussion is then the ideas put forth
by Kalki himself and those around him. Since I have not heard this
developed first-hand I can only recapitulate what I have been told,
basically that the time for humanity to become enlightened is now and
that this now will only last until the year 2012. There are two
remarkable things about these views. The first is that by presenting
such a perspective Kalki makes a break with the traditional Eastern
view. According to the traditional perspective, Enlightenment – which
by itself is a kind of entry into a timeless reality, an ever-present
now – is something that happens independently of human history. It has
been regarded as a state that may be attained at any point in time as a
result of the application of various methods of individual spiritual
purification and enhancement. Hardly any traditional Eastern text
mentions an exact point in time at which Enlightenment is to be
attained. Moreover, in most of them Enlightenment is seen as something
that is the goal of the individual as if he or she was separate from
cosmic evolution.
The second noteworthy thing is that the year set for the accomplishment
of this mission, 2012, coincides with what to the rest of the world has
become known as the ending year of the Mayan calendar; 2012. (Actually
the true date for the completion of the cosmic plan is October 28, 2011,
but it would lead too far to go into why). Although this concordance
of the dates was not originally known to Kalki, it does provide for a
unification of the world views of the East and the West on a new and
higher level. In fact, that Kalki, and the prophet who originally
pronounced this prophecy to him, did not originally know about the
existence of the Mayan calendar, makes this confluence of dates all the
more telling and remarkable. It points to the reality of the Mayan
calendar that in certain aspects can be intuitively accessed by any
inhabitant of this planet, and truly independently verifies the
existence of a cosmic time plan that the majority of humanity is still
oblivious to.
Briefly, the Mayan calendar is associated with nine creation cycles,
which represent nine levels of consciousness or Underworlds as
symbolized by the Mayan pyramids. This pyramidal structure of
consciousness development can explain things as disparate as the common
origin of world religions and the modern complaint that time seems to
be moving faster. Time, in fact is speeding up as we transition from
the materialist Planetary Underworld that still govern us to a new and
higher frequency of consciousness – the Galactic Underworld – in
preparation for the final Universal level of conscious Enlightenment.
The Mayan calendar is thus a spiritual device that enables a greater
understanding of the nature of conscious evolution throughout human
history and the concrete steps we can take to align ourselves with this
cosmic evolution toward Enlightenment. Interestingly then, the Mayan
calendar places Kalki’s mission in a context, the divine plan as
charted by the Mayan calendar.
A distinguishing characteristic about the Mayan calendar is thus that
new ways of thinking about religion and spirituality – and the
individuals that promote these who usually are referred to as avatars
or prophets – emerge at clearly definable times as related to the Mayan
calendar. They in other words often emerge at times propelling
significant changes in consciousness as defined by the Mayan calendar.
An obvious example is the Buddha, Siddharta Gautama, whose year of
birth is often given as 552 BC, which is the exact midpoint of the
Mayan Long Count starting in 3114 BC and ending in 2012. Another is
that Christianity began to be widely taught around AD 40, as the Ninth
baktun, ruled by Quetzalcoatl, the Lord of Light in ancient Mexico,
began to dominate the consciousness of people.
The point to realize is that spiritual leaders do not just pop up
randomly in the history of humanity, but at times where the cosmic plan
alters the consciousness of people in such a way that people become
receptive to their message. If Jesus, for instance, would have appeared
with his message in the baktun beginning 1538 BC, he would rapidly have
been forgotten as, in the consciousness ruling at that time, his
message would have fallen on deaf ears. It is the evolution of
consciousness among humanity as this is defined by the Mayan calendar
that defines what spiritual messages people are receptive to at any
given time. In this sense, also the message of Kalki, and the path
towards Enlightenment that he points out, appears at the current time
simply because the Cosmic Plan has now endowed people with a
consciousness that makes them receptive to this message.
Of course, if human evolution is looked upon in this way, the role of
individual prophets is somewhat lessened. They are, as the rest of us,
only agents of the Cosmic Plan and its divine purpose. And so, there
may be many different types of spiritual practice, embodied by several
different individuals, that may be leading people to the state of
Enlightenment. All that the Mayan calendar is saying is that at the
current time the evolution of consciousness is becoming increasingly
more favorable to the consciousness change that attaining the
Enlightened state means. It does not say that there is only one
individual that can help bring this change about, nor does it say that
there is only one type of spiritual practice that may lead there. What
it does say however is that step by step there will be a change in
consciousness in the current Galactic Underworld that until October 28,
2011, will make Enlightenment a state that is increasingly more easily
attained.
To the majority of humanity however, events – not only the attainment
of a state of Enlightenment, but also changes in religious thinking or
technological innovations – happen more or less at random and are
unrelated to its evolution at large. This denial or ignorance of a
cosmic time plan for the evolution of humanity blinds it to its higher
purpose. We should then not be surprised that the world looks the way
it does as most people to not recognize that they are here to fulfil a
purpose and to do this in a limited amount of time. A view of history
as being random fosters not only a lack of hope, but in many also an
irresponsible attitude towards life. Hence, the overriding importance
of working to disseminate information about the Mayan calendar in
today’s world and Kalki has encouraged adepts to study it.
The current unification of the modern expressions of some of the most
advanced ancient traditions of the West and the East, the Mayan and the
Vedic, in fact creates an opening for an understanding that human life
has an inherent purpose. Even if the modern East and West in recent
times have been engaged in many conflicts it thus seems possible that,
if we are willing to explore their ancient origins, it is possible to
find some common ground, in fact an entirely new world view that is
whole and where nothing is separate from the All is now gradually
emerging.
In this unification it seems that it is the West, the Maya and some
other Native American peoples, that is providing the calendrical
knowledge about the cosmic plan, while it is the East, the Vedic and
Buddhist traditions that is carrying the time-less wisdom of the Self.
The practical unification of these thought systems and traditions is
then brought about by all those that are taking a path towards
Enlightenment and according to the Mayan calendar the time for this is
now. In so doing we are collectively speaking creating the Universal
Underworld.
Author background
Carl Johan Calleman has a Ph.D. in Physical Biology from the
University of Stockholm (1984) and has served as a Senior
Researcher of Environmental Health at the University of
Washington in Seattle and as an expert on cancer for the
World Health Organization. He is recognized as one of the
world's foremost experts on the Mayan calendar based on the
books “Maya-hypotesen” (in Swedish, 1994), “The Mayan
Calendar” (Garev, 2001) and “The Mayan calendar and the
Transformation of Consciousness” (Bear and Co, 2004).
He was invited as one of the main speakers at the conference
about the Mayan calendar organized by the Mexican chapter of
the Indigenous Council of the Americas in Merida, Yucatan,
1998 and has appeared in television and radio shows in
several countries with his knowledge about the Mayan
calendar.
Carl Johan Calleman is one of the teachers at the
forthcoming Experience Festival at The World University of
Consciousness. Additional information on The World University of Consciousness can be found at www.experiencefestival.com.
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